Information for developers
Information for property developers tells you how to get a new property registered and numbered.
Whether you have built one new home or an entire estate, it is vital that your new development is named and numbered very early on in the building process.
More often your buyers will be purchasing their new home ‘off plan’. If the property isn’t addressed early in the process, HM Land Registry will not be aware of its existence, which will cause inconvenience and delays.
As soon as your development has received planning permission and before you commence work on site, you must supply the Address and Gazetteer Officer at the Town Hall with the following information:
- A written request to name and number the new properties on your development
- If necessary, a request to name a new street along with the suggested name/s you would like to be considered.
- A site layout and location plan
- Written confirmation of the final layout of the plots and their plot numbers
- A detailed floor plan for any flats, showing their entrances
- An approximate date of works commencement and approximate completion date
If you are building in an existing street, the properties will be addressed into the existing numbering system. Where there is no suitable gap in the existing numbering, letters (ie: ABC) will be attached to the numbers.
All numbers, including the number 13, must be used in the proper sequence. Applications to omit any number from a numbering sequence for whatever reason shall be refused.
In streets where no numbering exists, it is the developers’ responsibility to provide suitable property names.
If you are developing a large site that will have a new road, you will need to provide us with your name suggestions. We will then start the street naming process.
Once all the plots have been addressed, you will be supplied with the full postal addresses in writing, along with a list of plot numbers and their corresponding property numbers.
This information will then be sent to the statutory authorities at the end of each month.
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council
Town Hall
Castlefield Road
Reigate
RH2 0SH
01737 276000
customer.services@reigate-banstead.gov.uk
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